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3232With You Shortly — mused.bloghttps://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/with-you-shortly-mused-blog/
https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/with-you-shortly-mused-blog/#commentsThu, 12 Sep 2019 21:57:37 +0000http://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/?p=6004Continue reading With You Shortly — mused.blog]]>Chris, from mused.blog is a talented writer whose work should be seen far and wide. Here is an example of his very clever writing with a great twist. I hope you enjoy it!

This week’s photo writing prompt courtesy of Sue Vincent’s fun #writephoto challenge is entitled simply “reaching”. Much of the inspiration for this, came from the repeated phrase “I will not sit and wait for a break in the clouds” from the stunning track “Break in the clouds” by Frightened Rabbit. It literally started playing as…

]]>https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/lundi-limerick-51/feed/10pollymermaidSong Lyric Sunday 08/09/2019 – Blackbird on the wire?https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/song-lyric-sunday-08-09-2019-blackbird-on-a-wire/
https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/song-lyric-sunday-08-09-2019-blackbird-on-a-wire/#commentsSun, 08 Sep 2019 11:05:12 +0000http://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/?p=5983Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday 08/09/2019 – Blackbird on the wire?]]>Thank you to Jim Adams, who hosts Song Lyric Sunday and gives us the chance to share lots of familiar, and some not so familiar, songs.

If you fancy sharing one of your favourite songs you can find out how to participate, and also listen to all the great entries, here.

This week Jim has given us the word prompts of Bird /Fly /Sky /Wing and my immediate thought was to go for Leonard Cohen singing “Bird on the Wire”.(click on the link if you wish to hear it), but then I thought it’s yet another chance to turn to my all time favourites The Beatles, and another fabulous song from the White Album.

This song is performed by Paul McCartney alone, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar.

McCartney explained on Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, aired in 2005, that the guitar accompaniment for “Blackbird” was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Bourrée in E minor, a well-known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar. As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bourrée as a “show off” piece. The Bourrée is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings. McCartney adapted a segment of the Bourrée (reharmonised into the original’s relative major key of G) as the opening of “Blackbird”, and carried the musical idea throughout the song.

The first night his future wife Linda Eastman stayed at his home, McCartney played “Blackbird” for the fans camped outside his house. The fingerpicking technique that McCartney uses in the song was taught to him by folk singer Donovan. (wikipedia)

Here, for your, and my, enjoyment, is Blackbird. This is the 2009 remastered version which I consider to be the best available.

Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these sunken eyes and learn to seeAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, blackbird flyInto the light of a dark black night

Blackbird fly, blackbird flyInto the light of a dark black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to ariseYou were only waiting for this moment to ariseYou were only waiting for this moment to arise

Check out all the fabulously creative entries here and, if you’ve never had a go, why not try a story of your own? You may surprise yourself!

Photo by Geralt at Pixabay.com

She was expert in Octal, and knew that octal numerals can be made from binary by grouping consecutive binary digits into groups of three (starting from the right). She was using that to solve the problem that could save Earth.A pity that her magnetism was distorting the monitor!

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]]>https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/twittering-tales-152-3-september-2019/feed/18pollymermaidbinary-4437419_1280I talk to the trees………..https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/04/i-talk-to-the-trees/
https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/04/i-talk-to-the-trees/#commentsWed, 04 Sep 2019 11:10:56 +0000http://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/04/i-talk-to-the-trees/Peter's pondering: Not only do I talk to the trees, I talk to all manner of things. Each morning I go for a walk. I have various routes, but all take in fields, woodland, the River Erewash, the Erewash canal, bridges, a main road, and suburban streets. Some days I hardly…]]>

This popped up in my Facebook “memories” today. I thought it may be of interest, even though it is rather a long read.

I have various routes, but all take in fields, woodland, the River Erewash, the Erewash canal, bridges, a main road, and suburban streets.

Some days I hardly see a living soul, others I see far too many!

My normal route takes me down my road, which has only some 9 houses. At the bottom of the road I have my first conversation, with a brazen hussy who rolls on the ground and will not let me pass before she is satisfied. Somewhere close by her brother will be watching. He is more timid and undemanding. Their Mummy lives at the end house and thinks they are both boys!

I explain that I have to get on, and continue on my way. She follows, then runs ahead. It is…

]]>https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/lundi-limerick-50/feed/16pollymermaidSong Lyric Sunday 01/09/2019 – Happiness is a Warm Gunhttps://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/song-lyric-sunday-01-09-2019-happiness-is-a-warm-gun/
https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/song-lyric-sunday-01-09-2019-happiness-is-a-warm-gun/#commentsSun, 01 Sep 2019 11:26:13 +0000http://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/?p=5966Continue reading Song Lyric Sunday 01/09/2019 – Happiness is a Warm Gun]]>Thank you to Jim Adams, who hosts Song Lyric Sunday and gives us the chance to share lots of familiar, and some not so familiar, songs.

If you fancy sharing one of your favourite songs you can find out how to participate, and also listen to all the great entries, here.

I bought this album and, until very recently, it was still hidden away in a drawer, complete with all the original inserts. I took the very difficult decision to donate all of my vinyl to charity. I’m glad that I did but, my goodness, it hurt!

Most of the songs on the album were written during March and April 1968 at a Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India. This particular track has had all sorts of speculation about its true meaning with, as usual, suggestions that there was a sexual connection, a drug connection, and many other thoughts.

Whatever it was, or was not based on, why not just sit back and enjoy it just for the music. I do!

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

She’s not a girl who misses muchDo do do do do do, oh yeahShe’s well-acquainted with the touch of the velvet handLike a lizard on a window paneThe man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrorsOn his hobnail bootsLying with his eyes while his hands are busyWorking overtimeA soap impression of his wife which he ateAnd donated to the National Trust

I need a fix ’cause I’m going downDown to the pits that I left uptownI need a fix ’cause I’m going down

When I hold you in my arms (ooh, oh, yeah)And I feel my finger on your trigger (ooh, oh, yeah)I know nobody can do me no harm (ooh, oh, yeah)Because

Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun (happiness, bang, bang, shoot, shoot)Well, don’t you know that happiness is a warm gun momma?(Happiness is a warm gun, yeah)

]]>https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/song-lyric-sunday-01-09-2019-happiness-is-a-warm-gun/feed/4pollymermaidimg_1345-3My inheritancehttps://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/my-inheritance-2/
https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/my-inheritance-2/#commentsFri, 30 Aug 2019 22:02:57 +0000http://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/my-inheritance-2/Peter's pondering: I love a good sentence, they’re always a joy it’s something I learned from my dad as a boy he left school at 14 as people did then but always was good with a paper and pen he used to write poems and now, so do I they’re not…]]>

I just updated my random post generator picture and tried it out. I came across this, written 4 years ago. I like it. I hope you do too!